Nagpur: After prohibition on sale of liquor was lifted, over enthusiastic tipplers have helped the exchequer earn a whopping of Rs38.97 crore in just a week from May 15 to 21 solely from Nagpur district’s liquor producers.
The excise department office here also received the distinction of receiving the highest number of applications for liquor permit at 30,000 in Maharashtra, through which it earned a revenue of Rs1 crore (approx). In fact, through sale of application forms for permit, the department collected Rs15 lakh during the same period.
“The entire team of excise department which covers Nagpur district did a commendable job last week. For their hard work, I have given them a letter of appreciation,” collector Ravindra Thakare told TOI.
The department, under superintendent Pramod Sonone, added another feather in its cap by conducting the highest number of raids during the prohibition period among all districts in Maharashtra.
“We raided 429 places in the district after receiving a tipoff and lodged equal number of offences. Nowhere in the state is such a large number of raids was carried out during the prohibition period. We’ve arrested 314 persons for various offences related to illegal liquor possession and sale. About 173 vehicles were seized, along with material worth Rs1.79 crore,” Sonone told TOI.
During the prohibition period, the department officials encouraged liquor manufacturers to produce 20,000 litres of sanitizer and coordinated in distributing it free to hospitals, hostels, police stations and ashram schools among others, Thakare’s letter mentioned.
Talking about the large number of permit applications, Sonone said earlier, they used to receive hardly 50 applications in a month. “As many as 30,000 applications within eight days were too much to handle for our team. Now, we’re working round the clock to clear them. Two computers and ten employees are deployed for this work only. On the other hand, we received over 70,000 applications for one-day permit, which we had cleared. We never saw such a huge rush,” he said.
The SP added that online delivery of liquor was largely successful in Nagpur, while in Mumbai and Pune, the government had allowed chains like Zomato and Swiggy to distribute it since the last couple of days. “The department officials were helped by home guards and police teams during raids,” he said.
Liquor sale from May 15 to 21 in district
Date----------Country liquor--------Foreign liquor -----Beer
May 15 -------------58,504-------------10,137-------------1,183
May 16-------------59,816-------------15,691-------------13,884
May 17-------------60,607-------------29,847-------------17,892
May 18------------54,547-------------19,985-------------13,167
May 19-------------53,955-------------24,055-------------20,894
May 20------------51,252-------------22,510-------------16,369
May 21------------45,809-------------12,748-------------9,669
Total----------------3,84,490-------------1,34,973----------93,058
*All figures in Rs
The excise department office here also received the distinction of receiving the highest number of applications for liquor permit at 30,000 in Maharashtra, through which it earned a revenue of Rs1 crore (approx). In fact, through sale of application forms for permit, the department collected Rs15 lakh during the same period.
“The entire team of excise department which covers Nagpur district did a commendable job last week. For their hard work, I have given them a letter of appreciation,” collector Ravindra Thakare told TOI.
The department, under superintendent Pramod Sonone, added another feather in its cap by conducting the highest number of raids during the prohibition period among all districts in Maharashtra.
“We raided 429 places in the district after receiving a tipoff and lodged equal number of offences. Nowhere in the state is such a large number of raids was carried out during the prohibition period. We’ve arrested 314 persons for various offences related to illegal liquor possession and sale. About 173 vehicles were seized, along with material worth Rs1.79 crore,” Sonone told TOI.
During the prohibition period, the department officials encouraged liquor manufacturers to produce 20,000 litres of sanitizer and coordinated in distributing it free to hospitals, hostels, police stations and ashram schools among others, Thakare’s letter mentioned.
Talking about the large number of permit applications, Sonone said earlier, they used to receive hardly 50 applications in a month. “As many as 30,000 applications within eight days were too much to handle for our team. Now, we’re working round the clock to clear them. Two computers and ten employees are deployed for this work only. On the other hand, we received over 70,000 applications for one-day permit, which we had cleared. We never saw such a huge rush,” he said.
The SP added that online delivery of liquor was largely successful in Nagpur, while in Mumbai and Pune, the government had allowed chains like Zomato and Swiggy to distribute it since the last couple of days. “The department officials were helped by home guards and police teams during raids,” he said.
Liquor sale from May 15 to 21 in district
Date----------Country liquor--------Foreign liquor -----Beer
May 15 -------------58,504-------------10,137-------------1,183
May 16-------------59,816-------------15,691-------------13,884
May 17-------------60,607-------------29,847-------------17,892
May 18------------54,547-------------19,985-------------13,167
May 19-------------53,955-------------24,055-------------20,894
May 20------------51,252-------------22,510-------------16,369
May 21------------45,809-------------12,748-------------9,669
Total----------------3,84,490-------------1,34,973----------93,058
*All figures in Rs
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